I know it's nothing to do with DHCP, but the subnet mask that needs changing
- it's was just a huge (& costly !!) task to get this changed by the
authority involved.

"ThePro" wrote:

> "jasonb007" <jasonb007@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > We have a school server setup with an IP of 172.24.53.2 and a DHCP range
> > setup from 172.24.53.10 to 172.24.53.126, Subnet 255.255.255.128.
> > The gateway/router is setup as IP 172.24.53.1 and Subnet
> > 255.255.255.128
> > by the local authority so we can't alter this.
> >
>
> If you do not change this, you are stuck with 126 IP addresses, DHCP has
> nothing to do with it. You need to get at least as many addresses than hosts
> on your LAN.
>
> ThePro
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